The environment in Henry David Thoreau's Walden
By: Gary Wiener, book editor
Series: Social issues in literature series
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780737746549; 9780737746556
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-211) and index.
Table of contents: title: The life of Henry David Thoreau  -- Walter Harding; title: Thoreau spoke of the environment in a way that made people listen  -- Laura Dassow Walls; title: Thoreau was a poet-naturalist  -- Stephen Hahn; title: Thoreau was an ecologist before there was ecology  -- Roderick Nash; title: Walden was written as New Englanders systematically destroyed their forests  -- Ted Steinberg; title: Humanity's love of the wilderness is a recent development  -- Stephen Budiansky; title: Thoreau's nature was an artificial construct  -- Wright Morris; title: Thoreau's Walden was never environmentally pristine  -- Robert Sattelmeyer; title: Walden displays Thoreau's growing environmental consciousness  -- Lawrence Buell; title: Thoreau's environmentalism mirrors his racial sensitivity  -- Jeffrey Myers; title: Thoreau had an ambivalent attitude toward hunting  -- Richard Bridgman; title: Thoreau's notion of simplicity can help save the environment  -- Bill McKibben; title: Thoreau aids scientists in understanding global warming  -- Michelle Nijhuis; title: Thoreau's methodology can help solve current environmental problems  -- Daniel B. Botkin; title: Modern Thoreaus share his knack for self-promotion  -- Michael Agger; title: A new Hippie movement has some families returning to nature  -- Reihan Salam; title: All Americans should respect and protect the environment  -- Newt Gingrich and Terry L. Maple; title: Environmentalists must rescue the planet in the aftermath of destructive policies  -- Matthew Rothschild; title: Environmentalism is the new religion of urban atheists  -- Kevin Steel; title: It is not too late to save the environment -- Zoe Cormier.